Our Mission & Focus
The Monitor Team works to ensure that the NYPD engages in constitutional stops, frisks, and searches.
The Monitor Team’s focus is on the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices, as well as its trespass enforcement. The Monitor Team regularly assesses the NYPD’s compliance and publicly files reports with the court detailing their findings.
Know Your Rights
When you are stopped, frisked, and/or searched by a New York City police officer, you have certain rights.
Who We Are
Latest Report
On August 17, 2026, the Monitor filed its Thirty-First Report, a report on the NYPD’s Specialized Units, with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Highlights include the following:
- The NYPD specialized units failed to meet stop, question, and frisk compliance benchmarks established in 2025. Despite benchmarks of 85% compliance in Q3 2025 and 90% by the end of Q4 2025, NYPD did not meet the benchmarks and did not have compliance rates meaningfully higher than in 2024.
- Specialized units had a particularly low compliance rate for the most intrusive stops, frisks, and searches, and showed no sustained improvement over the course of 2025.
- In Q3 2025, stops by specialized units (90%) met the 85% threshold, but neither frisks (76%) nor searches (69%) reached the benchmark.
- In Q4 2025, none of stops, frisks or searches met the 90% threshold; the quarter saw declining compliance for each action (83% for stops, 66% for frisks, and 57% for searches).
- These rates continue to trail rates for officers assigned to routine patrol functions or non-specialized units. Officers in other units had a lawful compliance rate in 2025 of 94% for stops, 83% for frisks, and 79% for searches, compared to specialized units’ compliance rates of 83% for stops, 69% for frisks, and 62% for searches.
